I spend all day Saturday installing the bull bar and lights...just a heads up for everyone...install the lights on the bar first, then put it on your truck...then run the wires after you get it on. I used the AUX 3 upfitter switch for control, and used the firewall pass through you see in the pics to run the wires into the cab. If I had to do it again, it would take me a quarter of the time...but such is learning!
Let me know if you have any questions guys!








Thanks for looking guys!!

 

Nice job. Looks great. I noticed the TX license plate. What part are you in?

Speaking of plates, you may want to find a way to mount that plate on the outside. An overzealous DPS officer could get you for an obstructed plate.

 

haha yea...I have the plate relocator on order...it will bring it up a bit.

I'm in Houston. You?

 

Same here. Live in Sugar Land and work downtown.

 

Looking good !!!
I miss the PIAA 520's I had on the Ex - they would light up the night well !!!

On the Ex I was able to just screw the plate into the grill body a bit higher so it could be seen thru the bull bar and never had a problem,
but I did have to relocate the fog lights to below the bull bar:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gal...=25206&width=2

 

Sugarland to Dountown, man you must love traffic on 59. I lived off Bissonnett out past Cook Road back in the 80's for about 5 years or so. The last 2 years was driving a tow truck, and 59 in rush hour was a money making hwy.

 

On a side note, I spent about an hour on Google Earth looking over all my old stomping grounds; man have things changed in 20 years. I sure loved Houston but the oil debacle and the construction industry tanking forced me to move on to college, and never made it back for a job after that.

 

So what did you do with the recovery hooks? Did you remove them altogether? It's hard to tell from the pics.

 

I am in Houston also, far west side inside Hwy 6 and Westheimer. When I put my bull bar on I took the license plate off and dont plan on putting it on untill Im forced to! I used the Aux 3 upfitter also, why didnt you use the factory pass thru wires for your lights?

Post a pic with the relocater on when you get it.

 

A few more questions:

1. I looked at these a while back. What model number is yours? I saw there is a 3" and 4" with about a $300 difference between them.

2. Where did you buy? I see a lot of price variance online.

 

Hooks are still there...just slightly harder to get to...

The model is the 3" and I got it all from auto anything .com with 15% off and free shipping

 

What do you mean factory pass through...I thought I did?

 

There are 4 wires in the factory loom that go throught the firewall with all the other wires. There is about 6"-8" of wire on each side of the fire wall from the inside of the cab going to the engine compartment so you don't have to drill through the firewall.

 

Oh...I'll look again. I used the grommet in the pictures. Worked out nicely